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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [38] (47/432)
The record is made up of 1 volume (214 folios). It was created in 1917. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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RIVER ROUT ESI
Hight Bank
Tineh village: 10 houses of A1 Bu Nisan.
water season.
Ford in low-
Total
distance
Miles
85i
89i
EOUTE HIE
SAMARRA-MOSUL (185 m.)
Authorities Military Report on E. T. A., vol. iii, 1904 (report of 1892) ; Lorimer,
Report on a Tour in
Turkish Arabia
A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire.
and Kurdistan^ April-May 1910 ; Oppenheim,
Vom Mittelmeer zum Persischen Golf (journey in 1893) ; authorities cited for
Route 25 b and oral information relating to recent years.
The distances in this section of the river are very uncertain. They are based
on the times given by various authorities who descended the river by raft,
and as the speed at which a raft moves may vary greatly with changes in
the rate of the current or the wind, it is impossible on such evidence to
estimate mileage with any approach to precision.
For most of the way between Mosul and Samarra the Tigris flows
in a shallow valley through rolling plain country. The western side
of the valley, which seems to be more sharply defined than the
eastern, is formed by a low plateau-edge or by small ridges 50-150 ft.
high. The undulating plain is interrupted, at about 60 miles from
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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume III, Central Mesopotamia with Sourthern Kurdistan and the Syrian Desert (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, January, 1917), covering the Tigris and Euphrates from Baghdad and Fellūjeh [Fallujah] to Mosul and Meskeneh [Maskanah], the Lesser Zāb, the country east of the Tigris towards the Persian frontier, and the routes running westward from the Euphrates valley across the Syrian Desert. The volume was prepared on behalf of the Admiralty and War Office, and appears to be based on official and unofficial publications and maps which are cited in a bibliographical section in the volume. This volume was supplemented with corrections and additions in June 1918 (see IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/5).
The volume includes a note on confidentiality, a title page, 'Note', 'Abbreviations'. There is a page of 'Contents' which includes the following sections:
- Introduction;
- River Routes (The Tigris and the Lesser Zāb, The Euphrates);
- Land Routes (The Tigris Valley with Region to East, The Euphrates Valley, Connexions between Tigris and Euphrates Valleys, The Syrian Desert);
- Gazetteer of Towns;
- Bibliographical Note;
- Transliteration of Names;
- Glossary;
- Appendix;
- Index;
- 'Sketch Map of Routes', which includes 'City Map of Baghdad' (f. 212) and 'Mesopotamia: Outline Map Showing Routes, Volume III' contained in a pocket.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (214 folios)
- Arrangement
This volume is arranged according to numbered routes. There is a page of contents and an alphabetical index. There are two maps housed in a pocket.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio (except for the front cover, where the folio number is located on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. ).
Pagination: The volume also has an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:422, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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